DEJECT, DEJECTED, DEJECTEDLY, DEJECTION
ADJECTIVES
..825 — HEAN — HENE mean, abject, poor; humble, lowly; abased, ignoble; miserable, wretched, dejected, humiliated; of little importance, trivial → obs.
1225 — DROOPY depressed; dejected; sad; gloomy; drooping
1305 — ELENGELY solitary, cheerless, miserable, dejected → obs.
1330 — HEARTLESS destitute of courage, enthusiasm, or energy; spiritless; disheartened, dejected
1382 — LOW depressed; dejected, dispirited, despondent
1435 — HEAVISOME of heavy mood, doleful, sad, dejected; dull, gloomy, dark → obs. exc. Eng. dial.
1450 — BLUE miserable, melancholy, dejected
1513 — RUTHFUL sad, dejected, doleful → obs.
1560 — DUMPISH sad, melancholy; dejected, in the dumps
1589 — CRESTFALLEN cast down in confident, spirits, or courage; humbled, abashed, disheartened, dispirited, dejected
1590 — AFFLICTED dejected, downcast; humble; humiliated → obs.
..L16 — ALL AMORT dead; lifeless; spiritless; dejected → arch.
1603 — JAW-FALLEN chop-fallen; dejected
1607 — DECHEERFUL void of cheerfulness, melancholy, dejected → obs.
1610 — DOWN depressed, dejected; dispirited
1618 — CREST-SUNK crestfallen; humbled, abashed, disheartened, dispirited, dejected → obs.
1618 — DUMPY melancholy, dejected, in the dumps
1621 — MOPISH dejected, gloomy
1623 — AMORT dejected; heartsick → obs.
1707 — ABESSED humbled, abased, cast down, debased, dejected → obs.
1709 — BROW-SICK dejected; downcast; melancholy; hanging the head
1785 — OORIE — OURIE of persons and things: dismal, gloomy, miserable-looking from cold or illness; cold and cheerless, depressing, dejected → Sc.
..19C — FEATHER-FALLEN crest-fallen, cast down in confidence, spirits, or courage; dispirited, disheartened, dejected; subdued in demeanour → Eng. dial.
1827 — GUMPLE-FACED having a dejected countenance; sulky → Sc.
1832 — DOWNFACED having a downcast expression; dejected, dispirited
1843 — CUT DOWN troubled, vexed, disconcerted, frustrated, dejected → Amer. dial.
1851 — BROODY brooding, meditative; dejected
1857 — BLUE AS A WHETSTONE depressed, melancholy, dejected → Amer. dial.
1869 — OORIT cold, shivering, hunched up with cold or discomfort; tired-looking or ailing-looking, weak, puny, wearied, in poor spirits, miserable, dejected → Sc.
1874 — LIKE A DYING DUCK IN A THUNDERSTORM cast down in spirit; very down in the mouth; having a forlorn and hopeless expression; depressed, dejected
1882 — ROUGH unwell, sick; tired, dejected; now, esp. as the result of a hangover or lack of sleep → colloq., orig. Eng. dial.
1884 — GLUMMY glum, dejected
1887 — MUMPING dejected, unhappy → Amer. dial.
1900 — DISJECTED dejected → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1900 — DUNG disconsolate, dejected → Sc. (Bk.)
1905 — QUEASY dejected → Eng. dial. (Bk.)
1913 — BLUER THAN A WHETSTONE extremely dejected → Amer. dial. (Bk.)
1940 — CAN’T GO NO FURTHER, JUST LIKE A BEAR’S BROTHER miserable, out of sorts, dejected → African-American
1976 — ON A DOWNER in a dejected mood; depressed → Amer. sl.
ADVERBS
1377 — ELENGELY drearily, miserably, dejectedly, gloomily → obs.
1450 — LUMPISHLY dejectedly; stupidly; sluggishly → obs.
1621 — DUMPISHLY dejectedly, gloomily
1629 — HEARTLESSLY without spirit, dejectedly, gloomily → obs.
NOUNS
1398 — FAINTNESS dejection, timorousness; inertness, sluggishness → obs.
1400 — DOWNCAST a casting down a person or thing; overthrow, ruin; dejection
1535 — DUMPS a fit of melancholy or depression; dejection, low spirits → colloq.
1548 — DUMPISHNESS dejection; a tendency to be in the dumps
1591 — HEARTLESSNESS lack of energy or spirit, dejection → obs.
1606 — DAMP a state of dejection; depression of spirits
1638 — THE DOWNCAST disadvantaged or dejected people as a class
1656 — DEMISSION dejection, depression, lowering of spirits or vitality → obs.
1660 — JAW-FALL falling of the jaw; dejection
1899 — DOLESOMENESS gloom; dismalness; dejection → Amer. dial.
NOUNS, PERSON
1592 — FRIDAY-FACE a grave, dismal, or gloomy expression of the countenance; a gloomy, dejected-looking or miserable-looking man or woman → obs.
1693 — MOPE a person who mopes; someone given to prolonged spells of gloom or dejection; a low-spirited, listless, melancholy person
1721 — MOPER a person who mopes; a person given up to a state of listless dejection and apathy
PHRASES
1920 — JUST LIKE A BEAR, AIN’T GOT A QUARTER miserable, out of sorts, dejected → African-American
1920 — JUST LIKE A BEAR’S DAUGHTER, AIN’T GOT A QUARTER miserable, out of sorts, dejected → African-American
1920 — JUST LIKE THE BEAR’S BROTHER, JIM, HIS PICKINGS ARE SLIM miserable, out of sorts, dejected → African-American
1945 — ONE’S ASS IS DRAGGING one is fatigued, dejected, or beaten → Amer. sl.
VERBS
1380 — BATE to lower, to let down; to cast down, to humble, to depress, to deject
1382 — CAST DOWN to deject in spirits, to disappoint, to dispirit
1548 — DAMP to deaden or restrain the ardour or energy of; to depress, to deject, to discourage, to check
1608 — BATE to become dejected, to be depressed → obs.
1611 — CREST-FALL to make humbled, abashed, disheartened, dispirited, or dejected → obs.
1781 — MUZZY to be dispirited; to behave in a listless, dejected manner → colloq.
..19C — PULL A LONG FACE to look solemn or dejected → colloq.
1866 — OOL to be dejected and subdued, as from illness → Sc.
1887 — MUMP (AROUND) to act dejected or ill-humoured → Amer. dial.
1914 — DOWNCAST to bring a person into a state of dejection or low spirits
2006 — HAVE ONE’S ASS IN A SLING to be dejected or hurt; to be pouting; to be in trouble → US sl. (Bk.)